Multiple Choice
Cells spend the majority of their time in which one of the following phases of the cell cycle?
11. Cell Division
Interphase
Back11. Cell Division
Interphase
- Multiple Choice
The first phase in the cell cycle (G1) corresponds to ___________.
- Multiple Choice
Which pair includes a phase of the cell cycle and a cellular process that occurs during that phase?
- Multiple Choice
What is the name of the microtubule-organizing center found in animal cells as an identifiable structure present during all phases of the cell cycle?
a) Spindle.
b) Centromere.
c) Centrosome.
d) Kinetochore.
- Multiple Choice
What is the role of the spindle fibers during mitosis?
- Multiple ChoiceA biochemist measured the amount of DNA in cells growing in the laboratory and found that the quantity of DNA in the cells doubled __________.
- Multiple ChoiceA cell biologist carefully measured the quantity of DNA in grasshopper cells growing in cell culture. Cells examined during the G2 phase of the cell cycle contained 200 units of DNA. What would be the amount of DNA at G1 of the cell cycle in one of the grasshopper daughter cells?
- Multiple ChoiceDuring interphase, the genetic material of a typical eukaryotic cell is __________.
- Multiple ChoiceDNA replication occurs in __________.
- Multiple ChoiceIf a human somatic cell is just about to divide, it has __________ chromatids.
- Multiple ChoiceHow many maternal chromosomes are present in a somatic human cell when it is not engaged in cell division?
- Multiple ChoiceChromatids are __________.
- Multiple ChoiceDuring what phase in the cell cycle would you find the most DNA per cell?
- Open QuestionAfter S phase, what makes up a single chromosome?a. two daughter chromosomesb. a double-stranded DNA moleculec. two single-stranded DNA moleculesd. two sister chromatids
- Open QuestionIt is difficult to observe individual chromosomes during interphase becausea. the DNA has not been replicated yet.b. they are in the form of long, thin strands.c. they leave the nucleus and are dispersed to other parts of the cell.d. homologous chromosomes do not pair up until division starts.